U.S. Philips Corporation

Laurence Andry

Yannick Deville

The invention relates to the use of a human visual system (HVS) in a video encoder. A coding method and device are proposed in which the allocation of bits are efficiently modified over each current picture according to the fact that the eye is more or less sensitive to each area of said picture. In view of said re-allocation, a specific computation of so-called perceptual coefficients is proposed and leads to an improved visual quality, while ensuring that the global rate control performance of the encoder is not modified.

Method and device for coding a sequence of pictures

The system includes a base station (1) which communicates with a plurality of data carriers (2.sub.1, 2.sub.2) via wireless links. In order to enable the station (1) to identify several data carriers simultaneously, the system includes a device (15) for the separation of sources and also several demodulation units (12.sub.1, 12.sub.2). Depending on the type of modulation, the type of link used, and the arrangement of the source separation device (15) with respect to the demodulation units, the signals received by the source separation device can be convolutional mixtures or instantaneous linear mixtures of the signals transmitted by the data carriers. In order to process the different types of signal received, the source separation device may have a recursive structure, a direct structure or a mixed structure. Adaptation means (105) calculate filtering coefficients which are adapted to enable the source separation device (15) to separate the estimated identification signals for each data carrier requesting communication with the base station.

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Laurence Andry